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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Also, when you get used to relying on ai, you lose the practice and forget part fo your knowledge and skills. So, if you try to stop using ai, you will first have a steep decrease in productivity as you have to resharp your skills and remember a lot of stuff, and that creates a barrier preventing people from going out
Jesus, people, AI has barely been usable for a year - do you all forget your years of study and practice if the coffee breaks are too long, too?
Many people will have already forgotten what they studied in the first semesters when they finish the course lol
WIthout constant practice, most people's skills get rusty in a faster rate than we can imagine
In the 1980s I worked at a factory where the joke was "why are coffee breaks only 15 minutes long?" "Because when we give 'em 30 minutes for lunch we have to retrain them before they start work again after lunch."